The Sudan Medical doctors Community mentioned the lethal strike was carried out by the paramilitary Speedy Help Forces.
Printed On 12 Feb 2026
A drone assault on a mosque in central Sudan has killed two youngsters and injured 13 extra, in response to a Sudanese physician’s affiliation, amid an increase in similar attacks across the region.
The Sudan Medical doctors Community mentioned the assault was carried out at daybreak on Wednesday by the Speedy Help Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group engaged in a three-year civil struggle with the Sudanese Armed Forces.
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The youngsters had been reportedly learning the Quran on the Sheikh Ahmed al-Badawi Mosque in North Kordofan State when the constructing was hit by a drone in a “blatant violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation and a grave assault on locations of worship”, the medical doctors’ group mentioned in a Fb put up.
“Focusing on youngsters inside mosques is a totally constituted crime that can’t be justified beneath any pretext and represents a harmful escalation within the sample of repeated violations in opposition to civilians,” the medical doctors mentioned.
The Sudan Medical doctors Community mentioned the RSF has beforehand focused different spiritual buildings for assault, together with a church in Khartoum and one other mosque in el-Fasher, reflecting a “systematic sample that reveals clear disregard for the sanctity of life and spiritual websites”.
“The community calls on the worldwide neighborhood, the United Nations, and human rights and humanitarian organizations to take pressing motion to stress for the tip to the concentrating on of civilians, guarantee their safety, open protected corridors for the supply of medical and humanitarian assist, and work to doc these violations and maintain these accountable accountable,” it mentioned.
The UN individually mentioned on Wednesday {that a} current sequence of drone assaults have been reported on civilian infrastructure in Sudan’s South Kordofan, North Kordofan and West Kordofan states.
A World Meals Programme (WFP) warehouse in Kadugli was additionally hit by a suspected rocket assault on Tuesday evening, in response to UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. He didn’t say which group was answerable for the assault.
“The truth that we have now to reiterate nearly daily that civilians and civilian infrastructure, locations of worship, faculties and hospitals can’t and shouldn’t be focused is a tragedy in itself,” Dujarric advised reporters.
The UN has warned that Sudan’s civil struggle is increasing from western Darfur into the Kordofan area.
It has documented greater than 90 civilian deaths and 142 accidents brought on by drone strikes between the tip of January and February 6, which had been carried out by the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces.
Targets included a WFP convoy, markets, well being amenities and residential neighbourhoods in southern and northern Kordofan, the UN mentioned.
